Sentences with phrase «of organic fertiliser»

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The term organic refers to an ecological and sustainable farm management system that prohibits the use of genetic engineering, synthetic fertilisers and pesticides, antibiotics and artificial growth hormones.

This year Australian Organic will continue to provide people with support and information to help them understand that organic products are better for our health and wellbeing, organic farming is so much better for the environment, organic standards demand high levels of animal welfare, synthetic fertilisers and chemicals are harmful and buying GM free is important.

«The key benefits of organic - based fertilisers are that they contain a readily available nutrient supply; they result in better nutrient utilisation; they stimulate soil micro-organisms, they reduce nutrient losses into the environment; they buffer the acidifying effect due to compost; they increase Cation Exchange Capacity (CEC) of soils, and they contain naturally chelated trace elements within humus», says Paul Baguely, PG Ag Consulting.

The law seeks to ensure a high quality of organic food, boost EU organic food production, and avoid contamination from pesticides and synthetic fertilisers.

«A wide range of organic residue types can be processed, resulting in an efficient and rapid conversion or the material to agricultural fertiliser and biogas.»

The concept of local food processing precincts, with waste products being combined for regional renewable energy generation and organic fertiliser production is not mentioned.

Anaerobic digestion is the simple, natural breakdown of organic matter into biogas (carbon dioxide and methane) and organic fertiliser called digestate.

It is also alleged that organic farming increases the risk of food poisoning, through its reliance on manure fertilisers and its rejection of routine pharmaceutical and antibiotic use on livestock.

The principal differences between organic farming and conventional farming are the former's extensive restriction of the use of artificial pesticides, fertilisers and other agro-chemicals; its hostility to the agricultural application of biotechnology; its rejection of the routine use of pharmaceuticals on livestock; its attention to animal welfare; and its focus on crop rotation, soil quality and maintaining biological diversity as alternatives to chemicals.

He said that farmers would also pay N2, 000 and N3, 500 each per a litre of liquid organic fertiliser and plant health promoter respectively before redemption.

Onoja said that the state government would supply the fertilisers to the farmers at the cost of N4000 each for 50 kg bag of NPK, Urea, SSP and granulated organic fertiliser.

Bilbao describes the advantages of the envisioned concept: «With our mineral fertiliser salt and organic soil improver products, synthetic phosphate fertilisers are saved and overfertilisation from the application of livestock manure on the agricultural fields is prevented.

Moreover, according to the requirements of crop species and depending on the soil conditions, the organic soil improvers can be mixed with the recovered mineral fertiliser salts to a suited nutrient composition with a defined N / P ratio.

For the vast majority of human history, we have eaten organic food — that is, we ate food grown without the help of chemicals, artificial fertilisers, hormones, preservatives, antibiotics or genetic modification.

Organic farming practices utilise a range of soil management methods, including crop rotations and organic fertilisers.

Go organic where you can to lower your exposure to pesticides, fungicides, herbicides, fertilisers, antibiotics and a host of other chemicals that find their way into our food supply.

Scientists compared two batches of Brazilian tomatoes, one which was grown in organic fields and one grown conventionally using artificial nitrate based fertilisers and pesticides.

As many ingredients as possible, and a large proportion of their meat, vegetables, and other ingredients are organic — free from GM, artificial additives, fertilisers, growth promoters and herbicides.

Leo Studio Design in Puglia, the «heel» of Italy's «boot», has produced backpacks and shoes made from Econyl, a yarn made from nylon waste, and a printed skirt made from organic cotton that was grown with no pesticides or fertilisers.

The printed skirt is made of organic cotton, using no pesticides or fertilisers in the process.

, it gets put into the daily collection of organic waste and made into compost and natural fertilisers.

Sea salt comes from sea spray over the oceans, dust from dry desert areas, black carbon from burning of forests and fossil fuels, sulphates derive from ocean plankton and burning coal, nitrates derive from fertiliser use, car exhausts and lightning, and secondary organics come from the stew of volatile organic compounds from industrial and natural sources alike.

That's why high - yield agriculture, despite its immediate impacts in terms of fertiliser, pesticides and other inputs, is on aggregate much better than the organic alternative.

Nutrient enrichment of waters by release of phosphorous or nitrogen compounds (such as fertilisers) and organic matter (e.g. in effluents).

John Reganold, professor of soil science and agroecology at Washington State University in the US, and a colleague argue in Nature Plants journal that organic farming — that is, farming without pesticides or commercial fertilisers − could deliver the necessary calories, make a profit for the farmers, and protect the environment all at the same time.

Input production and delivery may include activities like the collection and composting of urban wastes, production of organic pesticides, fabrication of tools, delivery of water, buying and bringing of chemical fertilisers, etc.).

They also contain organic peat free compost, organic fertiliser and a selection of easy to grow flower seeds.

All that's left afterwards is a high - quality organic fertiliser for the farmer's fields that's not at all smelly and totally free of methane (one of the most harmful greenhouse gasses).